All public schools in New York will be closed for Asian Lunar New Year going forward as part of a new state law that declared it a ... 2022, and the Year of the Rabbit began on January 22, ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 29, public schools in New York will be closed. Why? A state law signed in 2023 provides the answer. That year, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation declaring the Lunar New Year ...

The investigation looked at the number of students in public, private and home-schools in every state, plus D.C., for the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school years.

New York’s State Education Department recently issued a recommendation that school districts provide special education services to some students with disabilities through age 22: an additional ...

More than one-third of New York City public schoolkids — or some 300,000 students — were "chronically absent ... MESA’s rate of chronic absenteeism in the 2021–22 school year was 31%, ...

Students in Rochester — and around New York state — won’t be in class on Jan. 29 in recognition of the latest school holiday. Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, is celebrated on ...